Basic Food Analysis Equipment

Appropriate equipment is essential for reliable and

valid results.

A1.01 -- Food Analysis Equipment

Equipment -- Mass (Weight)

Electronic balance 100-gram mass Analytical balance

Electronic balance

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Equipment -- Length The metric system

is the common unit of measure used within the scientific community.

Ruler that measures length in centimeter and millimeter divisions

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Equipment -- Volume Beakers Graduated cylinders Test tubes Erlenmeyer flasks Pipettes Volumetric pipettes

Graduated cylinder

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Equipment -- Temperature Alcohol thermometer Candy thermometer Celsius thermometers

Bi-metallic stemmed thermometer Thermocouple Continuous read thermometer

Note: Do not use GLASS thermometers.

A1.01 -- Food Analysis Equipment

Equipment -- Time

An accurate stopwatch or clock

The stopwatch or clock must be able to measure time in seconds.

Equipment -- pH

Litmus paper pH indicator

strips pH meter

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Equipment – Water activity

Hand-held unit Stationary unit

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Equipment -- Color

Colorimeter Spectrophotometer Hunterlab Color and Color

Difference Meter

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Equipment -- Viscosity

Simple equipment Stopwatch Funnel

Bostwick Consistometer

Viscometer

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Equipment -- Refractometer Used to measure

sugar content of foods

Often used by growers to check sugar content of fruit before picking.

Equipment – Texture Analyzer

Simple equipment – knife and cutting board

Texture analyzer – multiple attachments to measure:

succulence of fruit tenderness force required to move a

plunger a fixed distance through a food.

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A1.01 -- Food Analysis Equipment

Equipment -- Stretchability

Simple equipment Fork Ruler

Tensile stretch test equipment